Fire-place grate



G. W. HINMAN.

Fireplace Grate. No. 92,049 Patented June 29, 1869.

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G. NV. HINMAN, OF PADUGAH, KENTUCKY.

FIRE-PLACE GRATE.

S ecification forming part of Letters Patent No. 92,049, dated June 29, 1869.

To all whom it may concern v Be it known that I, G. W. HINMAN, of Paducah, in the county of McGracken and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and Improved Coal-Grate; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to'coal-grates; and it consists in combining, with a grate that has an air-passage in its rear and is formed in two sections, novel means for attaching the same together and to the jambs and back of the chimney.

Figure 1 of the drawings represent a sectional elevation of my improved arrangement. Fig. 2 represents a front elevation of the same, and Fig. 3 is a detail.

"Instead of forming the grate-bars A, as now commonly done, to run in straight lines, or nearly so, at the bottom, back to the wall, I turn them upward, as shown in Fig. 1, to a point, B, and turn them back to the wall, thereby forming a passage, 0, for the air behind the basket.

Above the gratelprovide a fire-clay deflector, D, for throwing the heat forward as much as possible.-

My basket is formed in two sections, one of which consists of the vertical bent bars a, and the other the longitudinal bars, (marked 0.)

I form four lugs in the jambs of the chimney, as shown by the letters 8, and also affix two hooks in the chimney-back, as shown by the letters a.

The Fig. 3 shows the means by which the two sections of my basket are united. They consist in extending the vertical end pieces of the longitudinal section downward below the pointof union, a's shown, and cutting therein, respectively, notches, (marked 12,) adapted to receive the extended ends of the cross-bar y and the lugs 'i on the outer bars of the vertical section of the grate.

By the means last above mentioned I am enabled readily to unite the two sections of the grate and attach them thus united to the lugs s in the chimney-place.

The upper cross-bar of the basket is hooked into the hooks to of the chimney-back.

By the foregoing devices I can not only remove the grate with great case, but also can preserve the longitudinal section for further use when the other section is burned out or otherwise destroyed.

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G. W. HINMAN.

Witnesses:

M. LEPPEL, IAFAYETTE GREIF. 

